Texas FFA Ag Issues and Current Events

What does SNAP stand for?

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

What was SNAP formerly known as?

food stamp program

Increase the _____ _____ for farm ownership and operating loans

Loan limits

Modify the experience requirement for ______________ loans

Farm ownership

Authorize a categorical exclusion from requirements for environmental assessments and environmental impact statements for certain _______________ projects with the primary purpose of protecting, restoring, and improving habitat for the greatest sage-grouse or mule deer

Forest management

Modify the ________________ for imported agricultural products

Organic certification requirements

The farm bill expires and is updated every ___ years

5

When was the agricultural act of 2018 signed?

December 20, 2018

What is the farm bill also known as?

The agriculture improvement act

The farm bill reauthorizes through the fiscal year _____?

2023

Who is associated with the farm bill?

USDA

Require farmers to make a new election to obtain either _________ or __________

Price Loss Coverage, Agricultural Risk

Replace Dairy Margin Protection Program with ________ and modify coverage levels and premiums

Dairy Risk Coverage

Make Indian tribes and tribal organizations eligible for supplemental ______________.

Agricultural disaster assistance programs

Reduce the adjusted gross income limitation for receiving benefits under the ______ and ______ programs.

Commodity and conservation

Modify funding levels and requirements for several _________ programs.

Conservation

Consolidate several existing trade and export programs into a ______________ program.

Priority Trade Promotion, development, and assistance

Legalize industrial hemp and make hemp producers eligible for the ___________ program.

Federal crop insurance

Establish an interstate data system to prevent the simultaneous issuance of __________ being ya to an individual by more than one state

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

The farm bill was apart of what plan?

FDR's new deal

What were the three original goals of the new deal?

Keep food prices fair for farmers and consumers

Ensure an adequate food supply

Protect and sustain the country's vital natural resources

Commodities

Provide certainty and predictability to eligible producers by reauthorizing and improving commodity, marketing loan, sugar, dairy, and disaster programs

Conservation

Improve productivity, address natural resource concerns, increase program flexibility, help improve water quality, address drought, enhance wildlife habitat, and address other related natural resource

Trade

Food exports, trade programs, and international food security programs

Nutrition

SNAP, To help low income Americans afford food for the families

Credit

Federal loan programs designed to help farmers access the financial credit they need to grow and sustain their farming operations

Rural development

Re-authorization and modification of various programs including the farm bill broadband program and the community connect program the community facilities program and the water waste disposal and waste water facilities grants and loans program. the bill reestablishes the under secretary for world development. It helps foster rural economic growth through rural businesses and community development housing and infrastructure improvement

Research

Farm and food research, education, and extension programs designed to support innovation, from state university affiliated research to vital training for the next generation of farmers and ranchers

Forestry

Forest specific conservation, creating incentives and programs that help farmers and rural communities to be stewards of forest resources

Energy

Encourage growing and processing crops for bio fuel, help farmers, rancher's, and business owners install renewable energy systems, and support research related to energy

Horticulture

Refers to fruits, vegetables, nuts, and nursery crops, including organic produce

Crop insurance

Provide certainty and predictability to producers by improving risk management tools and crop insurance coverage and by encouraging private sector innovation in the development and maintenance of policies

Miscellaneous

Brings together advocacy and out reach programs for beginning, socially disadvantaged, and veteran farmers and ranchers, agricultural labor safety and workforce development, and livestock health

How much does the farm bill cost over five years?

$428 billion

How much does the Farmville cost over 10 years?

$867 billion

What percent of farm bill spending goes toward nutrition?

76%

How much money goes toward nutrition?

$326

Three agriculture-related titles (ag risk coverage, price loss coverage, and dairy margin coverage) represent ___%

23%

The three agricultural titles (ag risk coverage, price loss coverage, and dairy margin coverage) total $__.

99 billion

Other titles account for ___%

1%

Other titles account for $___.

$3.5 billion

Over a __ year period, the largest share of projected farm bill expenditures belongs to the nutrition title.

10

What is the projected spending on nutrition programs for the 2019-2028 farm bill?

$664 billion (76.5%)

Crop insurance, conservation, and commodity programs account for how much for the 2019-2028 projection?

$119 billion or 23%

Remaining titles are projected to spend how much in the 2019-2028 period?

$4.3 million or .5%

Crop insurance projected spending

$78 billion

Commodities projected spending

$61 billion

Conservation projected spending

$60 billion

Who in congress writes the farm bill?

Members of Congress who sit in the senate and house committees on agriculture, nutrition, and forestry hold the primary responsibility of drafting farm bills

Farm bill process phases

Reauthorization

Appropriations

Rulemaking

Outreach and Evaluation

Hearings

Listening sessions where members of Congress take input from the public about what they want to see in a new bill

Agricultural committees

House and senate agricultural committees each draft, debate, "markup" (amend and change), and eventually pass a bill; the two committees work on separate bills that have substantial differences

Full Congress/ "The Floor"

The combined version of the conference committee's farm bill then goes back to the house and senate floors to be debated and potentially passed

White House

Once the house and senate approve the final farm bill, the bill goes to the president, who can veto it and send it back to Congress or sign it into law

Appropriations

Setting money aside in the yearly federal budget to fund the programs in the farm bill

Apparitions take place how often?

Every year

What does the SARE stand for?

The sustainable agriculture research and education program

How much money has the SARE program been authorized per year?

$60 million

When was the SARE program introduced?

1985

What amount has not been exceeded by the SARE program?

$25 million

Rulemaking

Happens concurrently with the annual appropriations process

Who makes the rules?

USDA

How many days are rules open for public comment?

30-90

Outreach and evaluation

Making sure the farmers and ranches will use it

When did Canada join the U. S. Mexico Canada Agreement

September 30, 2018

Agricultural exports in 1993

$8.9 billion

Agricultural exports in 2017

$39 billion

NAFTA

established a free trade area between NA

TRQ

tariff rate quotas

Dairy access is worth

$242 million

When will new amounts be reached

By the sixth year

The US exports how much money in dairy products to Canada annually

$619 million